US Patent 7353544 Baseball glove

A ball glove having a plurality of pads on the palm side of the glove to facilitate glove closure based on the true axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the fingers and the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb. The pads include a triangular shaped palm pad placed between the wrist, the center axis of rotation of the thumb carpometacarpal joint and the center axis of rotation of the small finger and the ring finger metacarpalphalangeal joints. A finger pad is disposed distally of the center axis of rotation of the ring finger and small finger metacarpalphalangeal joints and a thumb pad is positioned distally of the center axis of rotation of the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb. Flex lines are defined by lacing positioned to extend from one edge of the glove below the thumb to the web of the glove on one side and from an opposite edge of the glove below a finger stall for the small finger and the ring finger to the juncture of the small finger and ring finger stall with a finger stall for the long finger.